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1 " It is only one world in infinite universes where this impossible happiness exists, but that is what makes it so valuable. "
― Micaiah Johnson , The Space Between Worlds
2 " The multiverse isn't just parallel universes accessible thorough science. They are in each of us, a kaleidoscope made of varying perceptions. "
3 " Human beings are unknowable. You can never know a single person fully, not even yourself. Even if you think you know yourself in your safe glass castle, you don’t know yourself in the dirt. Even if you hustle and make in the rough, you have no idea if you would thrive or die in the light of real riches, if your cleverness would outlive your desperation. "
4 " Because that’s what a sister is: a piece of yourself you can finally love, because it’s in someone else. "
5 " They say hunting monsters will turn you into one. That isn’t what’s happening now. Sometimes to kill a dragon, you have to remember that you breath fire too. This isn’t a becoming; its a revealing. I’ve been a monster all along. "
6 " I guess it’s easy to be confident when you’re helpless, easy to be fearless when you have nothing left to lose "
7 " the universe erases me, but it also remakes me again and again, so there must be something worthwhile in this image. "
8 " Death can be senseless, but life never is. "
9 " Our dead are only weights on our backs when we won't let them walk beside us, when we try to pretend they are not ours or they are not dead. "
10 " Why have I survived? Because I am a creature more devious than all the other mes put together. Because I saw myself bleeding out and instead of checking for a pulse, I began collecting her things. I survive the desert like a coyote survives, like all tricksters do. "
11 " Sometimes, focusing on survival is necessary. Sometimes, it is just an excuse for selfishness. "
12 " But Wiley City is bad at age anyway. They see a fourteen-year-old runner outside the wall and say 'A suspicious man spotted near the border', but when a thirty-three-year-old Wiley-ite murder his girlfriend it's 'Good boy goes bad'. "
13 " Rage is dirty fuel, but it burns hotter than grief ever could. "
14 " I am always pretending, always wearing costumes but never just clothes. "
15 " Even worthless things can become valuable once they become rare. This is the grand lesson of my life. "
16 " I know he is, because I am, because of all of us who were told we were nothing will never stop trying to be everything. "
17 " I believed I was stable. I thought my ability to go to work, to visit my family, to eat and sleep, meant that I was. I confused routine for reliability and reliability for safety. I had no idea the chaos I was capable of holding inside of me. Now the only thing "static" about me is the buzzing rush in my ears when I try to think. "
18 " It’s a space between worlds, no different from the star-lined darkness I stand in when I traverse. The darkness is worth it, because I know what waits on the other side. "
19 " Human beings are unknowable. You can never know a single person fully. Not even yourself. Even if you think you know yourself in your safe glass castle, you don't know yourself in dirt. "
20 " „An angel fallen from the sky, with my name on her back so I would know the gift was meant for me.”„A fallen angel is a demon.”„A being who can enact great change, either way. "
